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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by shawnz on Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:00PM (#21101088)
No, you would also have to audit the entire codebase.

You could also decompile the Whatsapp APK and do the same thing (it's Java after all).

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by colejohnson66 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:04PM (#21101110)
> No, you would also have to audit the entire codebase

Look no further than the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by ajconway on Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:03PM (#21101104)
WhatsApp contains significant amount of native code, making it much more difficult to analyze.
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